Frost and snow to hit Britain as October heatwave comes to abrupt end

Temperatures peaked at an unseasonably high 18.3C (64.94F) in Gravesend, Kent, on Saturday, but temperatures are set to drop in the coming days.

Andy Ratcliffe, a forecaster at MeteoGroup, the weather division of the Press Association, said: ''A cold front will start across Scotland and Northern Ireland tomorrow, giving some heavy outbursts of rain, which will turn to snow over the mountains in Scotland.

''The rain will spread further south into northern England and Wales by the end of tomorrow.''

Winds of up to 65 miles per hour are expected across north-western England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and the odd rumble of thunder is possible.

''We will definitely feel a chill in the air,'' Mr Ratcliffe said. 

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